CRAIK, DINAH MARIA (1826-1887)

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CRAIK, DINAH MARIA (1826-1887) , English novelist, better known by her maiden name of Mulock, and still better as " the author of John

Halifax

Gentleman

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its
original
- ORIGINAL
and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

," was the daughter of

Thomas

Mulock, an eccentric religious enthusiast of Irish extraction, and was born on the loth of April 1826 at Stoke-upon-Trent, in Staffordshire, where her father was the minister of a small

congregation

CONGREGATION (Lat. congregatio, a gathering together, from cum, with, grex, gregis, a flock, herd)

. She settled in London about 1846, deter-

mined

MINED

to obtain a livelihood by her pen, and, beginning with fiction for children, advanced steadily until John

Halifax

Gentleman

GENTLEMAN (from Lat. gentilis, " belonging to a race or gens," and " man "; Fr. gentilhomme, Span. gentil hombre, Ital. gentil huomo, in its
original
- ORIGINAL
and strict signification, a term denoting a man of good family, the Lat. generosus (its invariable transl

(1857), placed her in the front rank of the women novelists of her day. A Life for a Life (1859), though inferior, maintained a high position, but she afterwards wrote little of importance except some very charming tales for children. Her most remarkable novels, after those mentioned above, were The Ogilvies (1849), Olive (1850), The Head of the Family (1851), Agatha's Husband (1853). There is much passion and power in these early works, and all that Mrs Craik wrote was characterized by high principle and deep feeling. Some of the short stories in Avillion and other Tales also exhibit a fine

imagination

IMAGINATION

. She published some poems distinguished by genuine lyrical spirit, narratives of tours in Ireland and

Cornwall

CORNWALL

, and A Woman's Thoughts about Women. She married Mr G. L. Craik, a partner in the

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Macmillan & Company, in 1864, and died at Short-lands, near Bromley, Kent, on the 12th of October 1887.

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